DELANYO DOVLO
REMEMBERING DAVID GARMAISE
David Garmaise died on April 19 after a long struggle with cancer. Over the previous fifteen years, David was the author of about a thousand articles in the Global Fund Observer, and multiple Aidspan Guides and Reports. Born in Canada in 1948, David left his job as a government official in 1996 to work full-time on HIV/AIDS issues. A few…
MEMORIES OF WORKING WITH DAVID GARMAISE
In 2012, as I took over from Bernard Rivers as Aidspan’s ED, Bernard told me he had a “secret weapon” – it was David Garmaise. It is so sad that David has been so ill and now died, but he was my secret weapon too. A phenomenal analyst, critic, editor and writer, David also worked fast. His time from idea…
A TRIBUTE TO DAVID
My professional relationship with David Garmaise dates back more than ten years. I first met him while I was serving on Aidspan’s Board of Directors. But it was only years later, when I started my tenure as Aidspan’s Executive Director, that I got the opportunity to work closely with him. His knowledge enabled him to mentor all of us –…
WITH GRATITUDE TO DAVID…
My first contact with David, apart from having read hundreds of his meticulously reported articles in the Global Fund Observer during my almost-decade at the Global Fund, was when he, along with Aidspan CEO Ida Hakizinka, contracted me as Acting Editor of the GFO in June 2018. David had recently been diagnosed with cancer and had had emergency surgery to…
25 avril 2020 : Journée internationale de lutte contre le paludisme
Christelle Boulanger
NEWS FOR AND ABOUT THE GLOBAL FUND PARTNERSHIP AND COVID-19
With a global shortage of medical commodities needed for COVID-19, such as test kits, reagents, and personal protective equipment for health-care and other essential workers, the news that WHO has listed the first two diagnostic tests for emergency use during the COVID-19 pandemic is a welcome step towards enabling countries that are struggling to get their hands on testing-related items,…
GERMAN DEVELOPMENT AGENCY AND GLOBAL FUND TRAIN THREE MORE AFRICAN COUNTRIES IN STRENGTHENING HEALTH SYSTEMS
GIZ BACKUP Health is a global program, implemented on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), which supports recipient countries in their partnership with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. GIZ BACKUP Health, the Global Fund, and the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health organized a training session for five African countries that are…
